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Draggy Thatcher (BBC). RuPaul’s Drag Race UK was a brilliant, instant classic from the moment it sauntered onto our screens three weeks ago. But this is Snatch Game. There’s a high bar, and if it’s not topped the whole season can be left in a stink. So how did it fare? Drag Race UK season

At the first London Trans Pride in 2019. (WIktor Szymanowicz/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Defiant queers are rallying against a new anti-trans group called “LGB Alliance” with a Twitter thread showing the beauty of the LGBT+ community. The “LGB Alliance” launched this week in what it called a “historic moment for the lesbian, gay and bisexual

Timothy Plan funds being listed on the New York Stock Exchange as Mat Staver helps ring the bell. (The Liberty Counsel) The head of an anti-LGBT+ hate group has helped ring the New York Stock Exchange bell to celebrate the listings of two “biblically responsible” funds. Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel was helping to celebrate

Kenny Coppedge sustained injuries to his face during the unprovoked attack. (Screenshot from local news station WJZY) A gay couple in North Carolina say they were assaulted by a group of men who claimed to be police offers on October 20. Kenny Coppedge and his boyfriend Jordan Frye were beaten in a vicious and unprovoked

McDonald’s Happy Meal. (Bernard Weil/Toronto Star via Getty Images) McDonald’s Happy Meals will not be replaced with ‘Rainbow’ Meals, fact-checking website Snopes has confirmed. A satirical article posted by website Taters Gonna Tate claimed that “McDonald’s New LGBTQ ‘Rainbow Meal’ Will Replace Kid’s Happy Meal”. While the claim was humorous, as Snopes notes, humorous and

Same-sex marriage is now legal in Northern Ireland, but few of the country’s churches will celebrate the unions (Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty) Three of the largest churches in Northern Ireland have explicitly stated they will not perform same-sex marriage ceremonies after marriage equality was passed yesterday. As Northern Ireland celebrated the new legislation, The Church of Ireland,

A newly hatched loggerhead turtle makes its way to the sea in Turkey, 2018. (Mustafa Ciftci/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Climate change means that the loggerhead sea turtle population is now almost entirely female. A University of Exeter study found that 84 percent of young loggerhead turtles in Cape Verde – one of the sea

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau waves to the crowd as he marches in the Pride Parade in Toronto, June 25, 2017. (GEOFF ROBINS/AFP/Getty Images) Justin Trudeau has won a second term as Canada’s prime minister and the country’s LGBT+ community have breathed a “sigh of relief”. The win for the Liberal Party has kept Trudeau’s opponent

A transgender Pakistani at a candle lighting ceremony in memory of trans victims on the eve of International Transgender Day of Remembrance in Lahore. (Rana Sajid Hussain/Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty) Five men have been arrested in Pakistan after a transgender person was allegedly tortured and raped at gunpoint on the night of September 20. The alleged attack

A man is suing a gay porn site after he received “a barrage” of junk mail because he said it sold his information without written consent and violated his privacy rights. Dennis Chiamulera is also seeking class action status on behalf of other subscribers to the site who he thinks are in a similar situation.

Elton John (L) (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty) and David Bowie (R) (Chris Walter/WireImage) David Bowie was allegedly “out of his mind on coke” when he called Elton John “the token queen of rock and roll”. Elton John made the comments in a section of his new autobiography Me where he opened up about his tumultuous friendship

People march up Queen Street on February 09, 2019 in Auckland, New Zealand. The #ourmarch event is part of the annual Pride Festival promoting awareness of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues and themes in Auckland. (Photo by Hannah Peters/Getty Images) Moves to ban conversion therapy – a harmful and widely debunked practise –  in

A pair of women hurled horrific homophobic insults at a gay couple simply because they were kissing. (Screen captures via Twitter) A gay couple outside a London, England, bus stop were verbally harassed by a pair of women in a car and told to kiss “behind closed doors”. In shocking mobile phone footage from the

Actress Lilly Singh attend the Vogue Women of the Year on October 19, 2019 in Mumbai, India. (Prodip Guha/Getty Images) YouTuber Lilly Singh, known on the video-sharing site as Superwoman, delivered a heartwarming acceptance speech at the Vogue Women of the Year awards this weekend. The Canadian YouTuber, who has more than 14 million subscribers,

Dozens protested outside a shopping centre in Reading, the site of the UK’s first Chick-fil-A store. (Martin Cooper) RuPaul’s Drag Race UK star Sum Ting Wong opted for a more muted look today as she and more than “150 people” protested today against the first UK Chick-fil-A store. In the southern town of Reading, England,

Bangladeshi hijras dance in the street during a rally. (Munir Uz Zaman/Getty) In a country where it is not only illegal to be gay, but laws are defined by traditional and strict religious views, a trans woman being elected councillor seems like a fever dream. But for Bangladeshi garment shop owner Pinki Khatun, it’s a

Graziano di Prima (L) and Johannes Radebe. (Keith Mayhew/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) In a groundbreaking move, the first same-sex couple will take to the Strictly Come Dancing ballroom next month, according to an alleged source. Two of the show’s pro dancers will perform the first one-on-one same-sex dance next month, The Sun reported. Italian

Paddy Smyth took home £70,000 after winning reality show The Circle. (Channel 4) Paddy Smyth, a gay disability activist with cerebral palsy, was announced tonight (October 18) as the winner of Channel 4’s reality show The Circle and took home £70,000. Georgina placed second, Tim and Sammie came joint third, and fifth place was taken

Researchers in the US have discovered that there are more tanning salons in neighbourhoods with high numbers of gay men – and that this could be raising skin cancer rates. For the study, researchers looked at data of households where there were male same-sex couples across 4,091 census tracts, NBC News reports. They then looked

RuPaul will quiz the queens in the Snatch Game. (BBC) Drag Race UK is about to unleash the Snatch Game onto the BBC and the internet is beside itself with excitement. After a sewing challenge which shook up the rankings and sent a fan favourite home, the trailer for next week’s Drag Race UK Ru-vealed

A gym near Boston is offering a pop-up session catering exclusively to the LGBT+ community, who often don’t feel comfortable exercising in regular gyms. CORE gym in Brookline offers specific Queer Gym sessions with the aim of empowering its clients physically and mentally. It’s one of several LGBT+ workout spaces that’s opened in recent years.

Elijah Cummings has sadly passed away after complications from longstanding health problems. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty) Tributes are pouring in for the Democratic congressman and staunch LGBT+ ally, Elijah Cummings, who sadly passed away on October 17 aged 68. The Maryland congressman and chair of the House Oversight and Reform Committee was a prominent figure in the

Labour MP Dawn Butler called out Baroness Williams for saying that GRA reform is “contentious.” (Paul Grace) Dawn Butler, Labour MP and shadow women and equalities secretary, gave a powerful and frustrated speech on the delays to Gender Recognition Act (GRA) reform, and hit back at Baroness Williams on the issue. Butler started by saying: 

There are various pressing issues affecting the LGBT+ community in the United States today. Members of our community can be fired because of their sexual or gender identity and trans women are facing an epidemic of violence, among countless other issues. But presidential candidates were not asked about these issues at a debate on Tuesday.

Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the US House of Representatives, gave a powerful message of support for her UK counterpart John Bercow at the 2019 PinkNews Awards. Nancy Pelosi praised the outgoing speaker of the UK House of Commons for his “instrumental” voice and values in the fight for LGBT+ rights. In a pre-recorded message, she

Online hate may be fuelling the rise in homophobia among young people. (Matthew Horwood/Getty Images) A new report has shown that homophobia is on the rise among young people, with one in four 18-24 year olds believing being LGBT+ is “immoral or against their beliefs”, higher than any other age group. According to the Hate

The victim was allegedly followed through the streets by a man who demanded oral sex (Pexels) A gay man in Queens has told of being beaten, dragged and robbed in the street after refusing to perform oral sex on a stranger. The alleged attack occurred in the early hours of October 13 as he walked

Nine presidential candidates gathered to debate LGBT+ issues at the CNN Equality Town Hall last week, but it was a nine-year-old transgender boy who went face-to-face with Elizabeth Warren and emerged as the true winner. Jacob Lemay from Massachusetts was among the audience members invited to ask a question of the Democratic candidates. The adorable elementary

Piers Morgan (L) debated with journalist Benjamin Butterworth on whether the Good Morning Britain should should be sacked for his anti-trans comments. (Screen capture via ITV) Piers Morgan was sufficiently riled up today on Good Morning Britain after viewers resoundingly called for him to be fired following his crusade against trans and non-binary people. A petition

Trump addressed O’Rourke’s proposal at a a summit hosted by the Family Research Council, which has been officially classified as an anti-LGBT+ hate group (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty) Donald Trump has eloquently dismissed Beto O’Rourke’s proposal to end the tax-exempt status of anti-LGBT+ churches as “wacko”. At the CNN Equality Town Hall debate on October